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emburse (third-person singular simple present emburses, present participle embursing, simple past and past participle embursed)

  1. Obsolete spelling of imburse.
    • 1860, The Sporting Magazine, volume XXXVI, London: Rogerson & Tuxford, →OCLC, page 212:
      Our Club cannot prosper unless we emburse / The Treasurer's wallet,—nay, quite the reverse, / From bad we shall only be getting to worse, / For the bowstring is strung by unstringing the purse; []
    • 1890, Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, volume XIII, Newark, N.J.: Daily Journal Establishment, →OCLC, page 103:
      [] purchase all of the said Tract [of land] that Samn Groome Emburse them the same or such prt thereof as they have not Received.

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